Popular Constitutionalism and Support for Judicial Reform: Using Latent Class Analysis to Examine the Structure of Attitudes toward the Judiciary

• In Event: Public and the Judiciary

Brief Overview

This paper uses latent class analysis to show that many Americans support the doctrine of popular constitutionalism and that this support is related to the public’s widespread desire for judicial reforms that make the judiciary more representative.

Authors

• Benjamin Woodson, University of Missouri-Kansas City

• Christopher M. Parker, University of Rhode Island